The list of predicate crimes is extensive and includes bribery,
embezzlement, fraud, theft, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
Secretary Hillary
Clinton and the Deep State: A RICO Criminal Conspiracy
By Ron Wright
We who elected President Trump
understood our elected officials and the Deep State were sandbagging Trump
and self-dealing public funds. It was no secret that President Trump is no
angel, unpresidential, blunt, and crude, and a disruptor. Trump was hired to
drain the swamp.
I watched this kabuki theater unfold over the
last several years. Through my eyes as a shopworn gumshoe, I will explain what
is happening. My investigative curiosity was first piqued by the ATF Fast and
Furious scandal and continues through the recent House impeachment show trial.
There is a common element running through all of these cons —
the actions of an organized crime conspiracy. A group of people
either acting alone or in concert with others committed crimes with a common
purpose - a criminal enterprise as described
in "CRIMINAL RICO: 18 USC. §§1961-1968 A
Manual For Federal Prosecutors."
The players acted together – in the
usurpation of power, the abuse of power by public officials, bribery, thefts by
fraud including federal funds, money laundering, perjury and the obstruction of
justice, the violations of fundamental of civil rights, aided and abetted in
the commission of these crimes and or to conceal these crimes. Criminals will
lie and can't keep their lies straight. Their methods and behaviors are the
same, whether engaging in street crimes or elaborate white-collar financial
schemes. The only difference is when more money is involved, the perps are more
adept in concealing, covering up their sins, and hiding where the money went.
Many of these scandals are well known to the American Thinker readers.
I will focus my comments on Hillary's home brew sever and the Clinton
Foundation as an example of how RICO can be used to prosecute the players.
FBI Director James Comey indicted
Hillary Clinton for her home brew server at his press conference. Comey then
egregiously concluded that there was no evidence of criminal intent purportedly
“required” to prosecute. Comey bastardized the Federal Espionage Act in
absolving Hillary Clinton. FBI's investigation of Clinton's emails was
low-balled. There was never a real search for the truth. The outcome was
preordained. My jaw dropped wide open. I knew the fix was in. FBI Director
Comey lied to the people with a straight face. Why?
The chance meeting of Bill Clinton
and AG Loretta Lynch on the airport tarmac was no mere coincidence. This chat
was not about the grandkids. Bill Clinton was there to convey a specific
message to Lynch that there would be no indictment of Hillary. Hillary
Clinton's email case must tank. This would have constituted bribery, if AG Lynch was
assured she would continue as AG in Clinton Administration. This meeting
took place only weeks before Comey's press conference dumping Hillary Clinton's
email case.
The Deep State needed Hillary Clinton
to win the 2016 presidential election, or the dike holding back the truth would
burst. Trump, the disruptor, was an immediate threat to both the Republicans,
Democrats, and the Deep State. If the truth
were laid bare, it would expose the Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton, the
Senate and House, and many executive departments for these abuses of power,
corruption, bribery, frauds, and thefts of public funds.
High-level government officials and
the Deep State committed many serious felonies either in furtherance of or to
conceal the crimes committed in the pay to play scam. In
exchange for favorable consideration by Secretary Clinton, those who benefited
would donate to the Clinton Foundation. The FBI started and
stopped investigations into the Clinton Foundation at least twice as reported
by the Washington Post. Peter
Schweizer's book, Clinton Cash, is the most
damning. Dinesh D'Souza slammed the Foundation in the National Review, as did The Federalist.
The status of the investigation of the
Foundation by US Attorney John Huber's is unknown. Rudy Giuliani said there was
enough to pursue "Clinton Inc" as racketeering
under RICO. The Foundation and its affiliated nonprofits require a real
investigation with an in-depth forensic audit to determine where the money
went. In financial crimes investigation, the prime rule is "follow the
money, honey." Illicit nonprofits have many ways to divert funds by
inflating salaries, expenses, and money laundering.
Illegal nonprofit schemes are
difficult to prosecute without hard evidence and the testimony of insiders. The
motive of Hillary Clinton's use of the home brew server was to conceal emails
from FOIA requests that would provide the hard evidence. Hillary Clinton
destroyed the data on her server and cell phones with the knowledge of the FBI.
It took years for Judicial Watch and others to pry
and recover some of these damning emails from the foot-dragging executive
departments that were complicit and knew what was going on.
RICO initially was used to target mob
families. RICO is also a useful tool to fight white collar conspiracies. They
both have the same hierarchy of low-level crooks led by the top players, linked
together with a common purpose. RICO has tools to squeeze the low-level
operatives to gather evidence to prosecute, jail, and seize assets of the
conspirators. The critical element required is a pattern of criminal
or racketeering activity. This pattern is proved by showing two predicate
crimes were committed within ten years. The list of predicate crimes is
extensive and includes bribery, embezzlement, fraud, theft, money laundering,
and obstruction of justice. The typical five-year statute of limitations
for most federal felonies is extended to ten years from the last criminal act
or acts committed to conceal the conspiracy, i.e., lying under oath and similar
actions to obstruct justice. The prison sentences are steep. The effect is to
cut off the head of the organization and not just the low-level players.
The criminal activity extends back to
the ATF's Fast and Furious program through the House impeachment show trial to
cover up the illegal acts of the Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton, the
Department of State, the DOJ, the FBI, and the CIA. A telltale sign that
the DOJ under US Attorney General Barr is willing to play hardball and may use
RICO, came when he spoke to the Federalist Society: "Barr accuses liberal 'resistance' of
trying to 'sabotage' Trump." AG Barr said this, "shows FBI launched Trump campaign
investigation on the 'thinnest of suspicions." AG Barr is the new
sheriff in town, he wears a badge, has guns and will travel, can impanel grand
juries, indict and arrest people, and is not limited in his jurisdiction, like
DOJ IG Horowitz.
The collective actions of the Deep
State are and were a silent coup to delegitimize a Presidential candidate. Once
elected to impede and resist the duly elected President. The President's law
enforcement and intel agencies were corrupted at the highest level and went
rogue.
Organized crime can't exist without
corrupt law enforcement. As I wrote in a letter to President Trump earlier this
year:
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. . I believe you understand the gravity of the situation and of its importance
to the very survival of our Country as we know it. If the people involved are
not held accountable for their actions, we will be no different than some Third
World Banana Republic.
Failure
to act will destroy our founding principle of the Rule of Law as stated by President
John Adams, "We Are a Nation of Laws, Not of Men" and we cannot allow
a two-tiered justice system to prevail.
Ron
Wright is a retired detective from Riverside PD, CA. BA in political science
CSUF, M. Adm. University of Cal, Riverside. Facebook at Ron T. Cop.
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